Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1395, 7 August 1872, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRI. HIGH WA%ER SLACK. TO-MOBROW. Morning, 9.55 Evening, 10.20 IB RIVALS. AUGUST. 6—Hero, schooner, from Wairoa DEPARTURES. AUGTJST. , 7—Dawn, cutter, for Wellington EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Coronilla, ship, from London via Auckland Emerald, ketch, from Lyttelton via Wellington Free Trader, barque, from Newcastle Hector, brigantine, from Warrnanibooi Luna, C.G. p.s., from Wellington Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland via Mercury Bay Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland VESSELS IN PORT. Napier, s.s., from Poverty Bay Esther, brigantine, from Wellington via the coast Herald, schooner, from Auckland via Wangapoa Lsetitia, schooner, from Auckland via Mercury Bay Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Three Brothers, schooner (repairing) PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Laetitia, schooner, for Mercury Bay, tomorrow Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, for Wairoa, early Hero, schooner, for Wairoa, oh Friday Esther, brigantine, for Wellington via the coast, to-morrow Napier, for Wellington, on Friday morning, at 9 o'clock

The schooner Hero, Campbell, master, left this port at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, for Wairoa, with a general cargo. Arrived off the mouth of the river at 7 a m. on Sunday, when, a souther springing up, weighed anchor, and stood off and on until 2 p.m., when, the tide serving, took the bar, and proceeded up the river. Discharged cargo the next day, and took in a quantity of maize, leaving for Napier at 8 a.m. yesterday. Had a light northerly wind, and arrived in the roadstead at 7 p.m. Cargo : 68 kits and bags maize.—The Hero leaves again for Wairoa on Friday next. The ketch Mary Ann Hudson is now on the berth for Wairoa. and will meet with quick despatch should sufficient inducement offer. We are informed that the schooner Laetitia will sail hence for Mercury Bay to-morrow, and will immediately return to this port with a cargo of timber for Mr J. LeQuesne. The C.G. p.s. Luna left Wellington for Napier at 2.40 this afternoon.

The s.s. Star of the South left Auckland for this port at 1.15 p.m. yesterday. The ketch Emerald left Lyttelton for "Wellington and Napier on the 31st ult. The cutter Dawn took her departure for Wellington this morning, in ballast. A new company has been promoted at New York with a capital of $11,000,000, to build six steamers on a large scale, to run between New York and Liverpool. The new line is to be called the Randall Steamer Company. The tonnage of each ship will be 8,000 tons, and each will be 525 feet long, 66 feet beam, and drawing 14 feet of water. They will accommodate 1000 first-class and 1600 second-class passengers. The guaranteed speed is to be twenty miles an hour, so that if the project succeds the run across the Atlantic will be accomplished in a much shorter time than at present; the Cunard average time being, we think, 9 J days across. The London Daily Telegraph in an article on the appearance of the me n of H.M. navy on the occasion of the late Thanksgiving Day, says:—We must carefully keep up the navy. The people know and feel that it is the main condition of our safety, as was evidenced by the hearty acclamations given to the blue jackets, whether they wore gold swabs on the shoulder or nothing except a reefer's knife in its white lanyard aud the good conduct stripe. The service is boundlessly popular still, although the Iroa Age has kid a heavy weight on the spirits of Jack. What with tue Captain

and the Megsera, be sometimes wishes, doubtless, that the last big gun had made the last iron-skinned ship useless, so that be might go back to the natural old wooden walls, and be killed like a man at the port-hole of a handsome frigate—one that could carry sail, and keep the sea in any weather, and look every inch of her a "She." There is something incongruous in applying that endearing, tender prorioun to the ugly, metallic Behemoth in which Jack - must - now cruise. Nobody has been able to get any romance out of the mineral monster ; no Marry at or Chamier has made " it" fascinating; no Dibden can put the hideous thing into song; none of the graceful ideas that clustered about the " saucy Arethusa" or the fighting " Temeraire," attach to the Devastation or the Hercules. Yet past all question, "as the bold hermit of Prague said to the niece of King Gorbodue," That that is, is: and we must, of course, continue under all fashions to have the best navy going, of whatever it may be constructed. Meantime we hope that Mr Goschen will see that our sailors have the means to learn their business in the old way. , It was not so much our ships that won for us the sceptre of the sea; the best we ever owned were taken from the French and Spaniards. It was the " hearts of oak " aboard of them; and there lies our safety still.